Weather: The Ultimate Conversation Starter
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” If that were true, there would be pictures of skies, clouds, trees and people to show what the earth looked like just after the rains. There would be no romantic reverie into the unpredictable nature of Nature itself, or the peep into the weather forecast to conscientiously plan the day ahead. Beautiful as it may be, a picture does not have a beginning or an end. It is the sum total of two dimensional space to be treated as liked by the observer. A picture is rarely ever read, and the significance of it strikes only at an unconscious level, very seldom at an intellectual level. The result being, one seldom learns from it. Thus, a picture can say that the trees are green, the roads are clean, the people are carrying umbrellas and the skies are dark, with no sign of the Sun. What does that mean, expect for the fact that it is how 'a rainy day' looks like? On the other hand, when one writes that a south-easterly ga...